[lbo-talk] Bush and Foucault

[B.]

"There are different kinds of truths for different
kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for
children; truths that are appropriate for students;
truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and
truths that are appropriate for highly educated
adults, and the notion that there should be one set of
truths available to everyone is a modern democratic
fallacy. It doesn't work."

– Irving Kristol, quoted at
http://reason.com/9707/fe.bailey.shtm

-B.

Dennis Claxton wrote:

"From Mark Danner's commencement address to the
Berkeley Department of Rhetoric:

But this is all old hat to you, graduates of the 
Rhetoric Department of 2007, the line of thinking  you
imbibe with your daily study, for it is present in
striking fashion in Foucault and many  other
intellectual titans of these last decades ­ though
even they might have been nonplussed to find it so
crisply expressed by a finely tailored man sitting in
the White House."